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Skirt

MOA: University of British Columbia

3343/2

White cotton wrap skirt. Design of small black elephants, with yellow outlines, printed in horizontal rows across front and back. Light and dark blue streaks in background. Top of cloth has white band with blue streaks and then a stripe of dark blue and a stripe of light blue. Same band and stripe pattern reversed along bottom edge. Cloth hemmed on sides.

  • History Of Use

    Typical wrap skirt worn in Nigeria in the 1970s. Cloth was wrapped around the body and secured by two corners tied in a knot at the waist.

  • Type of Item skirt
  • Culture West African
  • Material cotton fibre
  • Measurements height 110.5 cm, width 196.6 cm (overall)
  • Previous Owner Millie Morton
  • Received from Millie Morton
  • Made in Nigeria
  • Collected in Zaria
  • Creation Date during 1972
  • Collection Date during 1972
  • Ownership Date before January 29, 2019
  • Acquisition Date on January 29, 2019
  • Item Classes textiles
  • Condition good
  • Accession Number 3343/0002

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